Task

Dear Diary

1989

Angela is asking too many questions. I do wish she could learn how to keep her mouth shut. It’s funny how much someone can mean to a person yet they are the people who I want to kill the most. But, Angie is my lifeline. Without her I wouldn’t be here. She saw me when no one else did. I still want to stab her when she aggravates me but that’s just family I guess. Despite her nose being in places it shouldn’t be, today was a success. I have managed to clean the blood off my shoes. If Danny didn’t thrash much against me I wouldn’t have spent 40 minutes on my knees scrubbing them in the bath.

Above is my personal diary

Goal

Primarily, I was so excited to start this week’s task as I have such a deep love with horror and its substance. Although the more I delved into MY inner/outer monsters for the narrative plot, I found myself postponing finishing the task as I didn’t want to unleash my fears even to a computer screen. I discovered that though I relish watching and reading about horror, immersing myself into it with my own ‘demons’ was daunting and overwhelming. I opened doors that I didn’t even know had handles on them. I had written in my characters shoes before and thought it was extremely effective to do it here too as it helped me extract myself from the story in a way.

Doing this week’s task as a diary entry was nothing new to me, but it does not mean that I didn’t find it challenging. To immerse myself on a page that I knew would be seen by others was tough. Although the entry is only one paragraph long, it was actually inspired by a movie idea I have had stored in the back of my brain for many years now. A horror movie told primarily from the killer’s point of view.

I found it extremely helpful and insightful using Propp’s functions and Freytag’s Pyramid to base my story off. It is easy to use and follow. The simplicity of it allowed me to get out of my head and unleash my monsters onto the page without overthinking everything.